motes on a 

 few of tbe 3n0ecta anb plants at portlanb, 



By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 



(Read at Portland, July 6th, 1920.) 



would of course be impossible on this occasion 

 to give more than a few fragmentary notes on the 

 the insects and plants found in this most interest- 

 ing and, in many respects, unique locality; and 

 for full lists, so far as the plants are concerned, I must refer 

 those who wish for further information to a paper by 

 the late Mr. W. Bowles Barrett in Vol. XXXIII of our 

 Proceedings, and for the butterflies and moths to "A 

 List of Portland Lepidoptera" in Vol. XVII by myself, 

 and several other papers which I have written on this 

 subject in other volumes. My own knowledge of plants being 

 principally of those which form the food of various caterpillars, 

 I shall deal chiefly with them in this connection; but I will 

 first mention a few of the rarer species. Limonium recurvum, 

 C. E. Salmon, the Recurved Sea Lavender, has not been 



